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Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from the summit in the town of Taormina. "And I'm quite certain the president is wide open on this issue and he takes in the pros and cons of that accord", he said ....

Gazelka, R-Nisswa, also noted that his caucus, which holds a slim one-seat advantage, is not at full strength and will need some DFL help to pass the remaining bills. "From a minority perspective, I t...

Counting McKeegan, there will be 83 seventh-graders in the competition (28.5 percent of the field). She said she had trouble paying attention to other spellers while awaiting her turn previous year ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office , the number of uninsured people would increase by 14 million next year, and by 2026, 51 million USA citizens below age 65 will have no insurance, based o...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was more downbeat, calling the G-7 climate talks "very hard, if not to say, very unsatisfactory". A person familiar with the talks said six members of the Group of Se...

Mercado got caught between third base and home plate for the second out, and Rhodes grounded out to stand two base runners in the top of the first inning. Elish would not get out of the sixth unscathe...

That could involve providing money to insurance companies so they can contain customers' costs, and perhaps retaining Obama's individual mandate, which imposes tax penalties on people who go uninsured...

A source who has been in contact with people involved in the decision told Reuters a couple of meetings were planned with chief executives of energy companies and big corporations and others about t...

As the G-7 summit came to a close yesterday, the six other members - Britain, France, Germany, Italy , Canada and Japan - renewed their commitment to the accord. His top economic and national securit...

Allman played his last concert in October as health problems forced him to cancel other 2016 shows. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1999 and underwent a liver transplant in 2010 . He was 69 year...

Six of the 15 blacks dismissed from the jury pool summoned Monday were tossed based on their initial questionnaires. In the end two black jurors were selected: a woman who said she knew little about...

Mika Brzezinski made an announcement through Instagram , saying that her farther - a renowned political scientist and a diplomat - has "passed away peacefully". During the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis...

Several mudslides on Highway 1 have caused Big Sur to become isolated and hard to reach, but never fear, if you're willing to pay a hefty cost, Post Ranch Inn is now offering a helicopter package for ...

Events

McCain told Mattis that it is not the job of Congress to provide a strategy, but that the committee will start getting more vocal in its criticism if a plan is not presented soon. But at some point we have to say 'look, Congress and the American people owe. President Donald Trump is considering whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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They said they were grateful their son would "finally be with people who love him". After nearly a year and a half in a North Korean prison, a University of Virginia student is coming home, though reportedly in a coma. The third is a businessman named Kim Dong Chul. The State Department did not comment beyond Tillerson's brief announcement. The U.S., which has no trade with the North, can only apply economic pressure on the regime through secondary sanctions that prevent target entities ...

On Thursday, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his firing, which occurred in May, the investigation into any potential ties between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign and the possibility Trump may have obstructed justice when he put pressure on Comey to drop the investigation into Gen.

I love how Senator Harris gets manterrupted by her colleagues for insisting that Sessions answer. Miller responds with, "It was a completely partisan screed", before Powers cuts him off by reposing her question, "How was that hysterical?" "It makes me nervous", the most senior public law enforcement officer in America said.